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I like to take photos, make movies and read about new media and art. Last year I graduated on internet art (wrote my master thesis on the internet collective Jodi). Now I am in the Research Master media studies.

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GLI.TC/H 2011

GLI.TC/H was a simple idea that was hatched upon the notion of folks gathering together and engaging/chatting/debating the issues/theories/concerns of failure, systems, art, && glitches. We were able to realize this gathering last year in Chicago. GLI.TC/H 2010 brought people...
By Rosa Menkman on 08/29/11 Comments Off on GLI.TC/H 2011
Funware _playing with software art

Funware _playing with software art

November 12, 2010 until January 16, 2011 | Conference on saturday november 27 On saturday november 27 MU and Baltan Laboratories in collaboration with STRP Festival organise a Funware conference. Provocative views on humor, software, playing and art will...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/23/10 Comments Off on Funware _playing with software art

GLI.TC/H seeks audio/video bumpers!

**********http://GLI.TC/H in Chicago Sept 29 – Oct 03, 2010!*********** GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010! GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly of artists, hackers,...
By Rosa Menkman on 09/04/10 Comments Off on GLI.TC/H seeks audio/video bumpers!

Glitch Studies Manifesto

A glitch is an unintended break of (one of) the many flows within a technological system. It is a wonderful and frightening interruption that shifts a technology away from its ordinary form and discourse. For a moment I am...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/03/10 2

Media Playgrounds Program announced!

Media Playgrounds presents creative ways of dealing with broadcast media by community media practitioners, professional and emergent artists. Media Playgrounds takes place in Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. At each location, during two days, a variety of workshops...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/08/09 1

Compress Process

The whole video is created with one and the same skype video recording; its basically a selfportrait of me jumping around. Creating this video made me think about a couple of things. First of all, the research I am...
By Rosa Menkman on 03/12/09 2

lost faces

just a simple translation of a flyer that I found at the Network Cultures Winter Camp conference. On the 28th of February 25 people went on hunger strike, because they have no other way to oppose the regime of...
By Rosa Menkman on 03/06/09 Comments Off on lost faces

From compression artifact to filter

An archeology of a compression filter. A couple of months ago I was approached by a company that asked me for my knowledge on glitch and compression artifacts. They were especially interested in recreating bleeding pixels. I recognized their...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/19/09 2
The Pirate Bay on trial

The Pirate Bay on trial

Around 2 years ago, the investigations (which have been the longest ever in Sweden) into the Pirate Bay’s presumed copyright infringements began. The scale of the issues at stake in this trial is maybe best summed up by a...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/17/09 2

Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Anders set up a Commodore to give us a nice blue and white powerpoint straight from the machines memory. I have been wondering if this was an act of maximum open source or not… Chipmusic and the 8bit demoscene...
By Rosa Menkman on 12/15/08 Comments Off on Chip music and the 8bit demoscene – Hacking, Open Source and Remixing

Software Takes Command

6 days ago Lev Manovich released his softbook Software Takes Command. He described his book as a software, as it will have its patches in the same way as a new installments requires its bug (big?) -fixes: One of...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/27/08 4

// Failing harddrive // Cimatics festival, Brussels, 2008 //

I made this video with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me). It is the first time I made a (kind of) music...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/17/08 3

Multiplication can produce powerful glitches

At Haip festival in Ljubljana I met the Piratbyrån, the bureau of piracy which is (one of the) the driving forces behind the Piratebay torrent site. The Pirate bureau came to Ljubljana in the S23X, a Swedish modified city...
By Rosa Menkman on 11/11/08 1

In the midst of the serene world of ɥɔʇılƃ

HT Gold will be playable at HAIP Festival in Ljubljana in November (on the commodore, of course). Radio Dada will also be shown and I will give a glitch performance there. Be aware that the framerate of a Commodore...
By Rosa Menkman on 10/16/08 1

GOTO80, STU en Computadora on tour in Netherlands

\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ The famous label Bleepstreet is back on its feet, which means there will be 5 very interesting concerts this week. Bleepstreet Records...
By Rosa Menkman on 09/13/08 Comments Off on GOTO80, STU en Computadora on tour in Netherlands

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< title > < /title > < /head > < body > As described in the last post, glitch artists regularly use glitch-techniques to make the spectator aware of the construction of flow. This intervention can be accomplished by...
By Rosa Menkman on 08/29/08 Comments Off on < head >

The Nexus between Reason and Unr3as0n[4ble]

Since the beginning of the digital era, the quest of the Renaissance seems to have re-entered the artist’s consciousness, with the aim of presenting the world in the highest level of reality. The holy grail of this search is...
By Rosa Menkman on 08/13/08 Comments Off on The Nexus between Reason and Unr3as0n[4ble]

Non-figurative versus disfiguration

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By Rosa Menkman on 08/07/08 1

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«´`¸* Introduction to glitch *¸´`» (¸. •’´(¸.•’´ * `’•.¸)`’•.¸ ) In 1961, in the First Preface to Histoire de la folie, Foucault writes that the modern man and the madman no longer communicate. There is no longer a common...
By Rosa Menkman on 07/06/08 1

In-between Manifesto

By Lievnath Faber, Tim van der Heijden and Rosa Menkman. IN-BETWEEN MANIFESTO We are the Interdividuals We are the people that celebrate the in-between. Our manifesto is meant for everyone. One who is ‘in-between’ is neither an isolated individual...
By Rosa Menkman on 05/30/08 5

Eastern Fire Swim

Last Eastern me and Goto80 made a new ‘music’video. The sound is produced by the new tracker software for the c64 (Defmon) that Goto80 uses, unfortunately glitched . look at Youtube! Goto80 described it as “I hugged bugs to...
By Rosa Menkman on 05/12/08 Comments Off on Eastern Fire Swim

Radio Dada

The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image that feedback created . Then I glitched...
By Rosa Menkman on 04/20/08 4

404void.iq

Within the project ‘Diagnosing the Condition of Iraq: The web view’, DMI tried to diagnose the social conditions of Iraq via a web analysis. The Iraqi websphere consists largely out of news, blogs and commercial and governmental sites. In...
By Rosa Menkman on 02/28/08 Comments Off on 404void.iq

Video Vortex Vlog

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By Rosa Menkman on 02/24/08 Comments Off on Video Vortex Vlog